Bible Black

Synopsis

Setting

The game takes place in an academy rumored to have been the base of operations for a coven, twelve years prior to the premiere installment. This witchcraft club practiced black magic in a storage room of the academy's basement.

Plot

Taki Minase, a high school student, finds a book of black magic in the isolated storage room of his school. He begins practicing black magic, which has extreme sexual effects that benefit him and his friends, until evil comes forth from the dark craft. Eventually, the origins of the book are revealed, as is the incident on Walpurgis Night twelve years prior, when the evil force was at its strongest. After coming to his senses, Minase struggles to get himself out of the darkness into which he has put himself and his best friend and secret love, Kurumi Imari.

Characters

Taki Minase (水無瀬 多喜, Minase Taki)

The main character, a high school student who discovers the magic book (known as "Bible Black") in a school basement and becomes a pawn of powerful dark magic.

Kurumi Imari (伊万里 胡桃, Imari Kurumi)

Minase's childhood friend, neighbor and de facto girlfriend. She comes over to wake Minase up every morning. She knows everything about Minase, and tries to help him in every way. She is holder of a black belt in Shorinji Kempo and very tough. She is good at cooking and takes care of Minase when Yukiko is away.

Hiroko Takashiro (高城 寛子, Takashiro Hiroko)

The high school's art teacher, who is in charge of the art club, which both Minase and Imari are part of. She is very popular among the students for her good looks and kind personality.

Reika Kitami (北見 麗華, Kitami Reika)

The mysterious high school nurse and the main antagonist of the series. She seems to take a liking to Minase, and knows about his experiments with black magic. She was used as a sacrificial virgin in a ritual for the original Witchcraft Group (which was initially led by Miss Takashiro). However, since she was in fact not a virgin (she had been previously gang-raped), the ritual went horribly awry. When the gates of Hell opened, she made a deal with Satan that kept her alive in exchange for her soul. Now, the time that Satan gave her is running out, and she is searching for a new virginal female body to use as a reincarnation.

Kaori Saeki (佐伯 香織, Saeki Kaori)

Minase's classmate. She is obsessed with the occult, and has established a new occult group based on the one from twelve years ago. She knows a lot about black magic, and her fortune telling is very popular. She becomes interested in Minase and tries to seduce him after learning he possesses the book.

Bible Black: Origins characters

Nami Kozono (小園 奈美, Kozono Nami)

A mysterious, raven-haired lesbian who is the president of the school's student council. She is very popular with the boys, despite not being interested in men. She eventually becomes the leader of the witchcraft club, setting in motion the events of the original Bible Black.

Junko Mochida (持田 潤子, Mochida Junko)

Nami Kozono's lesbian lover who is also a member of the Student Council. She refers to Nami affectionately as "Onee-sama" (Big sister). Junko is the group's first experiment with magic; she was put under a simple spell that caused her to masturbate in front of the whole school during a speech. This both caused Junko social rejection and caused Takashiro to establish the Witchcraft Group.

Visual novel

The game has twelve different endings, and the storyline often diverges, based on choices made by the player, which influence "neutral" endings, "chaos" endings and "law" endings. However, there is only one outcome regarded by its developers as the "true" ending. Bible Black was published in English in 2006, under the name Bible Black: The Game after Activesoft ceased operations. A port was released only in Japan for the PlayStation Portable's UMD format, where it was not required to receive a CERO rating.

Anime

Bible Black

Bible Black (バイブルブラック, Baiburu Burakku; Bible Black) is the eponymous first OVA adaptation of the video game.

An academy student, Taki Minase, finds a strange book, the Bible Black, while exploring an abandoned room in his school's basement. With the help of his cousin, he translates the Latin-French writings and finds them to be instructions for dark magic, which is actually a form of Kabbalistic satanism (the translation was not mentioned in the OVA).

Using the book's magic, Minase is able to make Rika Shiraki fall in love with him, as well as help his friend, Ayumi Murai, get the boy she loves to love her back. Reika Kitami, the school nurse, hears of his magical acts and decides to sway him to her since she needs the book for herself. Twelve years prior on Walpurgis Night, Kitami was used as a sacrifice for the previous Witchcraft Club and only survived after making a deal with Satan, becoming a futanari in the process. Kitami now needs a virgin girl to act as a vessel for her reincarnation as the life that Satan has given her is running out. Kaori Saeki, the head of the new Witchcraft Club, also notes Minase's magic acts and persuades him to come to one of her meetings with the book. After being seduced by Kitami and possessed by a lesser demon, Minase brings her with him and she rapes Saeki into submission, taking over the Witchcraft Club.

Kitami holds private counseling sessions for girls, trying to find the virgin she needs. She reveals to Minase that the two girls she has had her eyes on were Shiraki and Minase's childhood friend, Kurumi Imari. However, since Shiraki is no longer a virgin (thanks to Minase), Kitami pursues Imari, who has been missing school recently after walking in on Minase and Shiraki during intercourse. Kitami also regularly kidnaps the art teacher, Hiroko Takashiro, and performs sexual tortures on her after finding out that Takashiro was the head of the Witchcraft Club that had sacrificed her, even though Takashiro had left the circle prior to the ritual.

After Imari is abducted by Kitami, the lesser demon leaves Minase and he realizes that he loves Imari and must save her. With the help of Takashiro and the Bible Black, he finds a spell Takashiro believes will stop Kitami's evil scheme. By this point, it is Walpurgis Night once again, and Kitami plans to reincarnate herself into Imari. Kitami slits her wrists and has sexual intercourse with Imari as the reincarnation ritual demands, but Minase interrupts it and casts his spell on Kitami. This apparently causes the ritual to fail, and Kitami dies from blood loss.

Bible Black: Origins

Bible Black: Origins (バイブルブラック 外伝, Baiburu Burakku: Gaiden; Bible Black: Side Story) is the game's second OVA adaptation, released on May 25, 2002. Set about twelve years before the events of the original OVA, Hiroko Takashiro and Reika Kitami are now students at the school, and several new characters are also introduced. The first episode opens with two female students, Nami Kozono and her lover Junko Mochida, having sex in a classroom after school. In another classroom, Hiroko Takashiro and her two best friends Rie Morita and Saki Shindou are reading Tarot cards. They receive a fortune reading: Great change is upon you. Something will change your life, completely. Nami soon interrupts them and says that they should leave if they are not part of a club. After she berates the group for their interest in Witchcraft, Hiroko warns her to not take Witchcraft lightly. She explains that they are trying to learn the truth about history through Witchcraft, and even asks Nami to join them. Nami is initially intrigued, but quickly brushes it off and mocks them again.

The next day, the school receives a new transfer student, Reika Kitami, a beautiful but naive girl; meanwhile, Rie finds the titular Bible Black in an antique store and shares it with Hiroko and Saki. Here it is also revealed that the girls' request to start a Witchcraft club has been denied by Nami, who is the head of Student Council.

Nami takes a strong interest in Reika, and flirts with her in the bathroom later that day, though this only seems to make her uncomfortable. When Reika does not return Nami's affection, her flirting turns into unwanted sexual advances. After school, Nami offers to tutor Reika in a class she is having trouble with, and uses it as an opportunity to sexually assault her. When a humiliated Reika rejects her, Nami becomes furious—having never been rejected in her life—and storms out.

Hiroko and her friends begin to translate the Franco-Latin-Hebraic text of the Bible Black, and plan to get revenge on Nami for forbidding them to start a Witchcraft club. As a test run, they cast a simple spell on Nami's lover, Junko, which is said to make a young woman "dance naked". Their spell proves successful when the next day Junko becomes aroused while giving a speech for an assembly, causing her to strip down and masturbate in front of the whole school. Nami is horrified by the incident, and becomes suspicious of the group when Saki later threatens that she might "be the next to dance naked".

New Bible Black

Shin Baiburu Burakku (新・バイブルブラック; New Bible Black), is the third installment of the OVA series. Years have passed since Walpurgis Night, and the girls of the Witchcraft Club have all graduated, and made their way in the world. Both Shiraki and Saeki become teachers at their school, while Takashiro becomes a Buddhist nun. Imari has become a police woman, who serves as a psychic investigator in the Tokken division. Her team is looking into a series of horribly gruesome murder cases, that all seem to have happened during sexual intercourse.

Strangely, witnesses see a ghostly figure at the crime scenes. Saeki restarts the Witchcraft Club with a new crop of girls, but it is unclear at first, whether she is fighting or helping Kitami. Meanwhile, Imari and her Tokken subordinate, Aki, are caught up in a bank robbery, conducted by occult robbers. An impromptu ceremony performed at the scene causes Kitami to take over the possessed Imari. In the aftermath, Imari steals the Lance of Longinus that the robbers were after, from the bank vault.

Imari/Kitami has found the virginal "Scarlet Woman" in Aki. She indulges in the sexual ceremony with her, using the Lance of Longinus. Meanwhile, the ghostly figure, identified as Jody Crowley, and Takashiro, both interfere with the ceremony, albeit with different intentions. The Lance becomes permanently lodged within Aki's vagina, and she is now targeted by the various forces of black magic.

The final ceremony climaxes with the black magic forces of Imari/Kitami, and Jody Crowley, both competing over the Scarlet Woman. Attacks fly all around, while Takashiro and Captain Yuge struggle to defeat both of them, hoping to end the ceremony. When Jody seems to emerge triumphant, the Lance of Longinus reappears out of Aki, and reanimates the original grimoire, the Bible Black. The devil emerges to take the souls of contract: Reika Kitami and Jody Crowley. A final effort by Takashiro manages to seal the grimoire while Jody's soul is taken, and Kitami manages to possess Jody's body instead. The final scene seems peaceful, with everybody content with how things turned out, but during one of the final shots, Aki's laptop screensaver happens to be several images of a menacing Kitami, hinting at a possible future installment to the series.

Most of the characters from Bible Black return in New Testament; however, Minase does not appear and is only mentioned once, leaving his fate unclear.

Bible Black Only

Bible Black: Onrī-ban (Bible Black オンリー版) consists of seven short films, which depict sexual side stories that take place around the time of the original series.